Hanover Exhibition Center

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Exhibition grounds from the north, March 2008
Expo Park Hannover , former EXPO-Ost site, to the right of the Messeschnellweg the exhibition center, March 2008

The Hanover Exhibition Center is located in the south of the state capital Hanover ( Mittelfeld district ) and is the largest exhibition center in the world with a covered area of ​​496,000 m² and 26 exhibition halls . The 131 hectare core area also includes a conference center. The operator of the site is Deutsche Messe AG (DMAG), which also organizes trade fairs outside the site.

In 2000 the Expo 2000 was held on the entire exhibition grounds . Important trade fairs such as Agritechnica and Hannover Messe are held annually on the exhibition grounds .

history

Outdoor area with Expo roof, March 2006
Hermesturm
The Skywalk leads from the Hannover Messe / Laatzen train station to the west entrance

Today's exhibition grounds were built in 1947 on the site of the United Light Metal Works, which had previously been relocated from Hanover to Laatzen as an armaments factory and dismantled in the post-war period . The British military government after the war in search of a suitable location for a trade fair in Germany. The former leading trade fair location Leipzig was after the end of the Second World War in the Soviet occupation zone and was therefore out of the question.

The halls of the former metal works Hanover (MEHA) in Laatzen (today Hanover-Mittelfeld) seemed suitable for this project. In 1947 the 1947 Export Fair was held there, which later became the Hanover Fair . This trade fair was a success and Hanover was established as a new trade fair location.

The only remaining structure from the original period is the "House of Nations" in the southern part of the site. The original five halls (with the names I, II, III, IV and V) have completely disappeared over the years. In 1997 a very extensive exhibition with the theme "50 Years of the Hanover Fair" was shown in the gallery of Hall 2. There were also plans for the exhibition grounds from different years.

The hall names have been partially changed over the years. The hall body with the numbers 14 to 17 z. B. used to have the numbers 13, 16 and 17, the former Hall 14 is now called Pavilion 36. Shortly before the Expo, this numbering was changed and the new hall in the far southwest of the site was given the number 13. Hall 2 was in the 1980s Years and had to give way to a new building with the same number. Hall 8 under the exponale is now much smaller than its predecessor, which also comprised parts of the area of ​​today's Hall 9.

Timeline

  • 1949 Division into export fair and industrial fair
  • 1956 to 1958: The Hermesturm was built.
  • 1958: Construction of the exhibition expressway
  • 1961: Renaming of the industrial fair to "Hanover Fair"
  • 1970: Hall 1 was opened, which was then the largest exhibition hall in the world. CeBIT , which at that time was still part of the Hanover Fair , is held in this hall .
  • 1974: In addition to numerous localities, the exhibition grounds are incorporated into Hanover and from now on no longer belongs to the city of Laatzen , but to the state capital Hanover.
  • 1986: CeBIT was first established in March 1986 as an independent trade fair alongside the industrial trade fair. CEBIT took place for the last time in 2018.
  • 1990s: The exhibition grounds were extensively rebuilt because of the contract for the Expo 2000 . Hall 13 was built, which at the time of its completion is the largest self-supporting hall in the world.
  • 2000, June to October: The World Exhibition Expo 2000 was held on the exhibition grounds (Expo West) and the new area (Expo East).
  • 2000: The exhibition tower became the new headquarters of Deutsche Messe AG .
  • 2005: The national final run of the ADAC in kart slalom took place in the Hanover trade fair.
  • 2008: Hall 1, the nucleus of CeBIT, is no longer part of the computer fair for the first time.
  • 2013: Hall 1 is partially put back into operation for the Hanover Fair and completely for Agritechnica .

Buildings

Halls

Other structures

In addition to the 27 exhibition halls and 7 pavilions, there are other buildings on the exhibition grounds or in the immediate vicinity.

Place in front of the Convention Center
Largest self-supporting wooden roof in the world (expo landmark)

Transport links

automobile

The exhibition grounds are connected to BAB 2 and BAB 7 via the Messeschnellweg . At large trade fairs such as the Hanover Fair or CeBIT, the Messeschnellweg is converted into a four-lane one-way street at times of high traffic.

Around 39,000 parking spaces are available at the exhibition center, 8,790 of which are in multi-storey car parks .

Light rail

Two lines of the Hannover Stadtbahn lead to the exhibition center. Line 8 or 18 leads to the north entrance of the site. Lines 6 and 16 open up the former east area of Expo 2000 with Expo Plaza and TUI Arena . The east area is connected to the exhibition grounds via the exponale .

train

Exhibition station

The Hanover Messe / Laatzen train station is located (south) west of the exhibition center. From 1953 to 1998 the Hannover-Messe terminus station was located directly on the exhibition grounds. Today the West 1 entrance is reached via a weather-protected Skywalk . The station is on the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg and can also be reached with line 4 of the Hanover S-Bahn ; At major trade fairs, the S 8 also runs to the main train station and on to the airport . In addition, special trains go to the station and trains that pass through the station outside of trade fair dates also stop there. This applies, for example, to the metronome on the way between Göttingen and Uelzen and to individual ICE trains .

literature

Web links

Commons : Hannover Exhibition Grounds  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Messegelände , in Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 171f.
  2. ↑ Unfortunately, the exhibition material cannot be found on the fair's website; all receipts are only on paper or in book form.
  3. ↑ "History" on messe.de , accessed on 21 December 2015
  4. ↑ "With the British impetus for the world's largest industrial spectacle" computerwoche.de of April 11, 1997  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 27, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.computerwoche.de  
  5. ↑ Cebit in Hanover will be closed - 2019 trade fair canceled. Accessed November 28, 2018 (German).
  6. ↑ "CeBIT 2008 without Hall 1" . March 7, 2008. Retrieved March 7, 2011. (from: Computerwoche )
  7. ^ "Overview of exhibition capacities" , accessed on December 21, 2015
  8. ↑ "Metronome: CeBIT 2012: Zusatzhalte Hannover Messe / Laatzen" ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 191 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.der-metronom.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 26 ″  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 10 ″  E